Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday gave a different interpretation to why Boko Haram was ravaging some sections of the country, fingering the opposition party as the brain behind the insurgency, aimed at distabilising President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
The party said that after a careful examination of the trend and character of the spate of insurgency and sectarian violence in the country, it submitted that these acts of terrorism were being sponsored by unpatriotic elements whose aim is to discredit the person, office and administration of President Jonathan.
PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, yesterday said the tactics is to distract the President, constrain the successful delivery of his transformation programme so as to portray him as non-performing and finally ridicule his score card when time reckons.
The party said that it was beyond conjecture that the Nigerian version of terrorism is the product of a narrow political persuasion that defies logic and reason.
It said: “We accept the reality of terrorism as a global phenomenon, however, the peculiar trend of the Nigerian version which subsists on a welter of nebulous demands and masked identities, hacking down innocent Nigerians -women, children and the elderly in an awful scorch earth fashion, and in an obstinate ridicule of dialogue, defies all reason and logic and only summarises a well considered agenda of national destabilization for a purely selfish political cause.
